Let’s first see how a website looks. As we all know, a website has a navigation, which has a proper heirarchy. It follows a logical pattern. A person knows that you need to read this first if it appears first in the navigation.

All content are continuation of each other. They are like chapters of a book. Independent, yet dependent on the previous chapters for proper understanding.

You can read any chapter of a book, and still hope to comphrehend something. You’ll only not understand things that are covered in the previous chapters which you don’t know about. But in the web, you could have the knowledge about previous chapters from any other source too. Which eliminates your dependency on just one website for information.

Blogs are mostly used as journals. People prefer to share information in the form of daily tips and tricks. And each blog post is more or less independent.

If a person clicks on a category in a blog, he’ll find tonnes of related posts, but they might all be independent. They are like small nuggets of wisdom, lacking an overall flow.

A blog about website development might give you tips on improving your productivity, provided you already know something about it. But if you were to start afresh, what would you prefer? A book that teaches the subject from beginning to end, or a blog with a complete mess of posts?

No. They are not. It depends on the blogger. Know who your target audience are. Research whether they’re searching for website with information from start to finish, or just nuggets of wisdom they can add to their own bag of tricks.

Once you realize this, you can make your own decision. Many people want to serve both the types of audience. That’s why a website is often accompanied by a blog. The website contains timeless ground information of good quality, and the blog provides tips and tricks to build up on this ground knowledge.

Ken Evoy is not a man of few words. He has some brilliant advice to give you. I recommend reading Site Build It‘s free Action Guide. Yes, it’s free, and the same guide owners of SBI follow. It includes a complete roadmap of strategies one should use to make his online website successful. You’ll find more information there than any paid ebook or book.

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Long Tail, The, Revised and Updated Edition: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More
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The idiotic mistake that GUARANTEES your loss in the SEO Game

Technology allows me to put up one, or thousands of websites in a matter of days. As a programmer, it’s very easy to visualize such a concept. But would it work the way I want it to? You might get a few traffic, but don’t expect yourself to be the next big thing.

When creating websites, the primary priority of practically everyone is SEO. Will Google like my website? Will I get top ranking for my foolish keyword? No one ever focuses much of their attention on content!

A single satisfied visitor can in turn bring in a lot more…

This is true. How many times have you followed links to blogs/blog posts or even websites from another website/blog? Bloggers especially, recommend cool stuff to their visitors if there exists one. And there is no reason why that cool stuff can’t be created by you! I’d like to clarify what I mean by “Cool”, but that’d take up an entire blog post. Keep checkin’ back for it though, I might just post it in a few days.

Even in forums, you can see people recommending others’ stuff like crazy, if it is really good.

“Hey! Where can I find some good info on XYZ?”
“XYZ_SITE.COM seems to be a good resource…”

Have you ever seen conversations like above in chat messages, forums or what not? That’s the power each individual holds, and the way to levarage it is to give the person what he wants, rather than chasing the search engines.

What Google actually wants… REVEALED!

A bold statement, eh? It’s nothing new, but most of the webmasters (should we even call them that?) don’t realize this. Google wants to give searches the best possible resource for their searches. And the more you help Google do that, the more it’ll help you.

Look at all the high ranking webpages, what do they have in common? They all give the users what they want. ONLY AFTER DOING THIS, they modify content and stuff to make it easier for search engines (say Google) to know what their site is all about. And all of this is available on Google’s own help system, why fruitlessly search everywhere else?

So the Fundamental Law is…..

….Users first, SEO second and your list goes on. I’m not telling you to neglect SEO. But the higher priority are your users. The efforts of satisfied users can bring you more traffic from SE and other sources than what you could do on your own in your entire lifetime.

I’d like to hear from you too…

I value your opinions, thus I’d appreciate you writing in the comment box below, on what you think about this article. It’d be interesting to know about your experiences in the SEO world. Have a nice day!

WordPress Theme Directories Suck For A Reason…

Technology is now in everyone’s hands. You too, might learn how to create a WordPress theme in a matter of days. People simply put every one of their experiments into these theme sites, and such theme sites happily accept them, for they need more content.

Theme directories also get spammed by people who simply want backlinks. And there are numerous other reasons why you’ll spend more time on a theme directory than on developing your own website. But we’re not discussing it here anyways.

Find The Perfect WordPress Theme NOW…

What I’m going to describe is only one of the many methods to get you started. I know you might have also used search engines fruitlessly to land on the perfect theme. This method makes use of search engines, a little differently.

A good theme is often downloaded more number of times. But the factor that separates the good from the bad is the amount of time it’s used, not just downloaded. So here are your steps…

1. Type it up!
   In your favorite search engine, type keyword “powered by wordpress”. Substitute keyword for the niche you want a theme for, i.e. technology etc. I won’t recommend using the word say, “technology”, but rather words that you’re sure a technology blog might contain, maybe a hardware name?
2. Follow the blogs!
   Search engines return results in descending order of relevancy and importantly authority to some extent. So you can make a fair assumption that the top blogs might be more “theme” conscious. Go to the footers of these blogs, and if they’re using a free theme, it’ll mostly contain the reference to it in the footer. Follow it and if you like the theme, download it.
3. One more tip
   If the footer doesn’t contain helpful information, maybe the blog is using a custom or paid theme, or a free theme allowing removal of copyright. Check out the blog’s source, you’ll find the name of the theme in the declaration of the css file used for the page, something like: <link rel=’stylesheet’ href=’DOMAIN-NAME.com/wp-content/themes/THEME-NAME/….whatever’ type=’text/css’/>. Search for this theme name on google, you’ll land up on some more info.

Now There Is A Problem….

Most of the good themes are just used “many times”. It might hardly make a difference to you, depending on your niche. But still, if you really want good and “not-overused” themes, you could have little luck with the free ones. If you care about getting a good theme and don’t mind investing, paid themes are a good choice. A lot of hardwork goes into designing and coding good themes, and thus developers expect at least something in return, which is normally a nominal fee.

Here are some of the so called “theme clubs” that might interest you. You don’t pay for individual theme, but a nominal fee to access the entire collection for a set period. Isn’t that great?

Elegant Themes: Elegant Themes is very affordable at $19.95 for a year’s access. The themes are, well, quite elegant as the name suggests. You get access to all themes currently released and the future themes released during your subscription period. This seems to be a real bargain.

Woo Themes: Is a bit costly at $150 per three months, but is surely worth it. You’ll get access to the already available themes and those released during your subscription.

Know of any others? Write a comment below and I’ll add it!Similar Posts:

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Fortunately, you don’t even need to HTML encode your source code. Remember to disable your Visual Editor for best results. I don’t think the plugin specifies this, but after my bad experiences with it, I’ll think 100 times before switching it on.

Lastly, here’s an example of how it’d look,

#include <iostream>

int main()
{
	cout<<"It's working, isn't it?";
	return 0;
}

Have a happy time blogging codes!